Johann Caspar Bosshardt

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Self-portrait (around 1874-75)
Grave of Johann Caspar Bosshardt in the old northern cemetery in Munich

Johann Caspar Bosshardt , also Kaspar Boßhardt , (born April 1, 1823 in Pfäffikon ZH , Switzerland ; † February 10, 1887 in Munich ), was a Swiss history painter who lived and worked in Munich for more than 40 years.

Life

Bosshardt was the third child of the cooper Hans Heinrich Bossharth. At the age of 15 he went to Zurich to be trained as a copper engraver by Georg Christoph Friedrich Oberkogler (1774–1856). He later learned portrait painting from Johann Rudolf Obrist (1809 – around 1868). Ludwig Vogel became his sponsor. Vogel recommended him to the painter Theodor Hildebrandt in 1841 for his painting class at the Düsseldorf Art Academy . There he was influenced not only by Hildebrandt, but also by Wilhelm von Schadow and especially by Carl Friedrich Lessing .

Due to a nervous disease, Bosshardt left Düsseldorf prematurely in 1844 and recovered in his home community. In the same year, the Zurich government council granted him a scholarship to train as a history painter in Munich. He settled there permanently from 1845 until the end of his life. He traveled regularly to Switzerland for study purposes and because of his business relationships.

Bosshardt's first large historical painting, Mayor Waldmann's Farewell to His Fellow Prisoners , was painted in Munich in 1847. It was purchased by the Zurich cantonal government and shown in the rotating exhibition . The painting made him known among Swiss politicians and business people. In the period that followed, he earned a steady income as a portrait painter and improved his social reputation. History pictures were also created in large formats with themes from the 16th century. On a trip to Italy in 1865 he met Friedrich-Theodor Vischer in Venice and Arnold Böcklin in Florence.

Bosshardt's hopes for an order to decorate the Federal Council House in Bern, which was completed in 1857, were dashed in 1865, but he continued to produce large-format history paintings. In the early 1870s, like the professor at the Munich Academy Arthur von Ramberg , he turned to genre painting and, among other things, traveled to Tyrol in 1872 to study. After his death, his work was forgotten because it was no longer in line with contemporary tastes. They have only been re-appreciated since an exhibition in 1987 in the Heimatmuseum in his hometown, and in 1998 they were also shown in the exhibition From Anchor to Zünd - The Art in the Young Federal State 1848–1900 at the Kunsthaus Zürich .

Works

literature

Web links

Commons : Johann Caspar Bosshardt  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o Paola von Wyss-Giacosa: From Anker to Zünd - Art in the Young Federal State 1848–1900 . Ed .: Christian Klemm. Scheidegger & Spiess / Kunsthaus Zürich, Zürich 1998, ISBN 3-906574-00-8 , p. 393 .
  2. ↑ Bettina Baumgärtel , Sabine Schroyen, Lydia Immerheiser, Sabine Teichgröb: Directory of foreign artists. Nationality, studies and stay in Düsseldorf . In: Bettina Baumgärtel: The Düsseldorf School of Painting and its international impact 1819–1918 . Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86568-702-9 , Volume 1, p. 427
  3. ↑ a b Tapan Bhattacharya: Johann Caspar Bosshardt. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland. January 7, 2003, accessed December 27, 2019 .
  4. ↑ The last knight stays in Mainz. In FAZ of February 25, 2016, page 42.
personal data
SURNAME Bosshardt, Johann Caspar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bosshardt, Kaspar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss history painter
DATE OF BIRTH April 1, 1823
PLACE OF BIRTH Pfäffikon ZH , Switzerland
DATE OF DEATH February 10, 1887
Place of death Munich